Crossword clues for gravestone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravestone \Grave"stone\, n. A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Gravestone was a German heavy metal band, formed in 1977 as originally a progressive rock outfit, before going in to the heavy metal genre.
Gravestone released five studio albums between 1977 and 1986 before splitting up. Several of the band members continued the band under the name 48 Crash.
Usage examples of "gravestone".
I could see myself looking down on the gravestones of those fools in the Bioethics Commission in, say .
The moths bared their gravestone teeth and bleated their sexual challenge to each other.
The city was a layered silhouette, an intricate fading chimneyscape, slate roofs bracing each other obliquely below the plaited towers of churches to obscure gods, the huge priapic vents of factories spewing dirty smoke and burning off excess energy, monolithic towerblocks like vast concrete gravestones, the rough down of parkland.
They threaded their way past the modern gravestones of latter-day Silvers and their kinfolk, and walked the few hundred yards along Route 80 to the dirt trail that led off into deep woods.
Massive bruises adorned his arms, gravestones of venipunctures, and the entirety of his right hip, where the biopsy had been performed, was an angry gathering of blue-black blood.
Eleanor Rigby on it in the graveyard in Woolton where John and I used to hang out, but there could be 3000 gravestones in Britain with Eleanor Rigby on.
Gravestones had been smashed with sledge hammers, coffins had been dug up and the bones scattered about.
Their trunks were hidden to shoulder height by ivy and thick brambly shrubs, and among these shrubs began to appear first the outlines of gravestones and then, as the path ran parallel with the outer wall, the shapes of larger and larger tombs.
It was an odd corner near the canal and although he quite often walked Kitty among the gravestones in the afternoons he could not recall being in that particular place before.
It was also rich in history, starting with gravestones so old that the markings on them were nearly indecipherable.
The tower had as many stories woven around it-dead animals inside, dead people inside--as the gravestones had jokes, though none was based on fact.
They walked down the path between the gravestones and fog swirled in spite of the rain, shrinking the world until it encompassed only the two of them.
The snow mounded on the gravestones and statues and tall granite lanterns glowed in its light.
What did it matter that the edifice of this future rested on coffins, graves, gravestones, obelisks, busts and suchlike funeral appurtenances?
It had been bought in the capital on the proceeds of their income from coffins, gravestones and similar appurtenances of death.